Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-27
METHODIST CLERGY.
MINISTERS WHO ARE COMING AND
eoIpG UsDsR BEw APPoIsTMEETs.
What the Conference in Session at Danville
Last Week Did for Richmond
Personal Sketches.


Rev. Joseph II. Riddick, the retiring
pastor Of Clay-Street, entered the
itinerant work in 1854. He has filed
successfully some OF the most important
stations in the conference, among
them Washington-Street, Petersburg;
Cumberland-Street, Norfolk, and Clay
Street, Richmond, from which he is now
going. He is an admirable preacher,
pious, jealous, and eminently successful.
CLAW. Street church building has been
greatly improved and beautifed under
his administration, and many souls have
been converted and added to the Church.
The people 10 whom he goes are to be
congratulated, for he is one of the most
lovable clergymen in this city. lie goes
to Pungoteague, in Accomack county.
To-day he is absent from the city, and
this morning his pulpit Will he filled at
II A. NJ. by Rev. j. L. Lumpkin and
tonight by Rev. A. G. Brown.
WILLIAM p. WRIGHT.
Mr.. Wright, who goes from Laurel
Street church, began his ministry Just
twenty years ago. He is an independent
thinker and fearless speaker. He is
Jealous and persistent in his work, and
has been rewarded with success in every
passionate he has served. He has been
with the Laurel-Street church two terms
His first term here began in 1869, and
lasted three years During this time he
built the present house of worship and
completed the lecture-room for use.
After an absence of one year he was re-
turned to Laurel Street, and is now re-
moved because of the four years limit of
pastorate. During this last term the
church edifice has been completed, at a
total cost of about $4,000, and neatly
furnished, and the membership greatly
increased. One hundred and twenty
one members were added to the church
during the conference year Just closed.
Mr.. Wright took very active part in
the local-option campaign here in the
spring of 1886. But while bold TO speak
bis views on questions of SCOTLAND pollti-
cal economy, he has so prudently avoided
all party entanglemcnts that III his con-
gregation and membership leading repre-
sentatives of the contending social and
political parties meet in church and Sun
day school as brethren, and labor to-
gether in the most perfect harmony.
REV. J. c. REED.
Mr.. Reed, who is going from Trinity
to be the presiding elder of the Norfolk
district, Joined the conference in 1868.
He is Il bold, strong preacher, and is a
very popular and successful pastor. lie
has the advantages OF q liberal education
and the grace of industry. He carries an
empty sleeve, a memento of service in
the war and certificate of courage that
shrinks and truckles before no danger
He has been at Trinity three years, and
has made q wide circle of friends and
admirers here in Richmond, all of whom
speak Of him with admiration and wish
him well.
REV. GEORGE ". wRAY.
Mr.. Wray was appointed to Centenary
last year to assist DR.. William E. Ed
wards, whose feeble health made it ne
cessary for him to seek partial rest.
Mr.. Wray's fine preaching, ability, and
diligence in pastoral labor made him de-
seryedly popular. and the Centenary
would cheerfully have re-
ceived him as their pastor on the removal
of DIR. Edwards Mr.. Wray has been
preaching only ten years, but has already
gained fine reputation, and he is still
advancing He goes to Salisbury, Nd.
REV. W. Z. JUDKINs.
Mr.. Judkins, who comes to Centenary
from the Norfolk district, Is well known
in Richmond as a former popular pastor
of Trinity church. He has filed impor-
tant stations, and was for the last four
years the presiding elder Of Norfolk
district, the leading district Of the con-
ference. He is regarded as one OF the
foremost preachers of this conference.
and his return to Richmond is welcomed
by a host of people of all denomina-
tons. He is already in the city, ready
for the work before him, and will fill his
pulpit this morning and tonight, and
will no doubt have full congregations Of
old friends and admirers.
REV. JOSEPH II. sTURGIs.
Mr.. Sturgis, who comes to Trinity,
Joined the conference in 1873. He was
last year at Pungoteague, Accomack
county. He is n chaste and forceiul
speaker. With the exception of year
or two at Ashland this is his first impor-
tant station work. He is said to be an
ardent temperance man.
REV. WILLIAM II. ATwILL.
Mr.. Atwill, who takes charge of Clay
Street, is brilliant speaker and active
pastor. He has scored great success IN
almost every appointment he has served
since his entrance into the conference in
1874. His last charge was Wright-Me-
mortal, Portsmouth.
REV. WILLIE o. wAGGENER.
This gentleman, who succeeds Rev.
William 2. Wright at LaurelStreet,
Joined the conference in 1876. He comes
from Amelia, one of the first circuits in
the conference. Mr.. Waggener isyoung,
genial, cultivated, and industrious. As
a preacher he has few superiors in any
denomination. His success III former
pastorates has been very decided This
is his first assignment TO city work.
Happily ne finds his new charge well
equipped and rapidly increasing.
LOCAL CATRO IA AFFAIRS.
New Year Services-PersO
ganizntiOu OF u New Society.
To-day is the first Sunday in Advent,
the beginning of the liturgical year. The
subject of the Gospel is of the greatest
moment consequently the Church, es-
pecially in Catholic countries, brings ont
her best talent in the pulpit. On last
Sunday she reminded her children of the
coming of the Supreme Judge at the end
of time to-day she speaks of the last
Judgment and the beginning of new
life of happiness or woe.
BISHOP KEANE.
Bishop Keane has returned home from
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